The CUI32Stem can run Arduino code using the Chipkit “Multiplatform IDE” developed by Microchip. It also supports a free Real-Time Operating System called StickOS which allows you to program it in BASIC.

The CUI32Stem Grove Dash Kit is a starter pack, but many more sensors are available.

Shawn Wallace is a MAKE contributor, artist, programmer, and editor living in Providence, R.I. He designs open hardware kits at Modern Device and organized the Fab Academy at the Providence Fab Lab. He makes iPhone synthesizers with the Fluxama collective and is a member of the SMT Computing Society.

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Note – Although not shown in the “Grove Dash Kit” photo above, the CUI32Stem comes with headers pre-soldered on (when shipped as a part of this kit). When shipped alone, there are no headers on the CUI32Stem board, allowing slim-profile mounting applications and/or users own choices for which types of headers to use…